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Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

"Can I get a name for your order?"
"Let's name it, The Battle of Mactan, to honor the indigenous forces of Lapulapu, rising up against the Spanish-led expedition of Portuguese--"
"I can't fit all that on the Starbucks cup..."
"--in some ways the first successful resistance to colonization..."

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 7h

Instructions unclear. Going to block, mute, and start a Smams Fanclub where people who have Smams blocked and muted speculate on what might be getting posted.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 8h

Look, from what I hear, Mr. Corpus is doing a hell of a job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 12h

This goes for universities and companies too. If you pay him, you lose more in brand value, AND he comes back demanding more.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 12h

Feels like the evolution of our society too, with the emergency shifting from 9/11 to "we want you to post on social media"

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 12h

I shopped in Hawthorne, Portland during the war of '25 and have suffered ever since. "Do I even need another mid-century modern antique? Is my living room too cluttered already?" I lie awake and relive the trauma like so many of us survivors.

Photo of Hawthorne shopping district in Portland.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 12h

They really should be threatening contempt charges too. When a witness repeatedly testifies "I'm not going to answer questions about xyz" (as Bondi did repeatedly and without legal basis). You don't get to pick your questions and dictate the terms of congressional testimony as an agency head.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 19h

It'd be easy to disprove this theory by just pointing to a single person in leadership who isn't behaving as a 12yo, and yet...

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 20h

Christina makes a good point here. That ups her score by .02, which has been relatively stable this quarter.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Kindof feel like you're high right now, CNN. Shouldn't you be, like, looking for news stories and reporting them?

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I think that was my first introduction to what a warped morality Trump has. At the time I assumed it was just bad/weird writers, but as we've all gotten to know Trump, pretty clear that "you're fired, stupid, for taking responsibility" is 100% Trump.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

But Trump didn't see it that way. He fired the team leader. And in his little speech explaining it, he explains that he gave him an opportunity to blame the guy, and he didnt take it. "That was stupid of you. Really stupid." What a plot twist! And how weird an ending!

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

It seemed we could see where this was going. Team leader took responsibility for a mistake that wasn't his, whereas the guy that screwed up didn't accept responsibility. We were about to have a little lesson about responsibility. Maybe a bit cliche, but standard fare.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Asks the team leader, "who's to blame?" And the team leader thinks about it and says, "ultimately, as team leader, I am." I didnt do the thing but responsibility is on the leader, etc.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

In the end, Trump is deciding who to fire, the guy who fucked up or the team leader of that team. He interviews the guy who made the error and that guy tries to blame everyone and everything but himself, then he interviews the team leader...

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Two teams compete. I don't remember the competition specifically, but one team fucked up pretty badly. Obviously blew it. Moreover, the fuck up was all because of one specific team member's obvious fuck up. There was no ambiguity about.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

I want to tell you about an episode of The Apprentice. It's the only episode I ever watched, and I watched it when it aired. Didn't know much about Trump at the time. Story includes a plot twist that speaks to Trump's madness.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Just oral arg on conversion therapy ban.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

CNN be like, "Dialysis machines may be life sustaining, but could we put that energy to better use, like powering AI data centers to generate AI slop videos of magical medbeds?"

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

"Can I get a name for your order?"
"Let's name it, The Battle of Mactan, to honor the indigenous forces of Lapulapu, rising up against the Spanish-led expedition of Portuguese--"
"I can't fit all that on the Starbucks cup..."
"--in some ways the first successful resistance to colonization..."

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

And instead we found ourselves with much of the work in the space focusing on a different problem, centralization (i.e. how to stop an Elon from happening to them).

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Some former employees have talked about those projects a bit. Very hard to replicate because employees scattered, trade secret protections, etc.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed, the fallout from Elon's Twitter takeover is incalculably immense. One of the sadder casualties, is Twitter had very cool unreleased projects in the works that were very far along re stopping spread of misinformation. All that was immediately axed.

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 1d

When the central issue is whether an insurrection is occurring at all, it's incredibly irresponsible to use a photo from 1992.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 2d

This meme is a pretty deep cut. #JusticeForCrocomire